What are your top 3 favorite DAC or DAC/Streamer devices?


Just wanted to find out what everybody is using and why? I guess I will start.
1. Schiit Bifrost/ Bifrost Uber/ Multibit. These devices sound great and are affordable.
2. Ayre Codex- Great Dac, but costly.
3. Bluesound Node 2. Budget Swiss army knife audio- as it can be a preamp/DAC/, wirless bridge to your digital library and streamer.

Which DACs, streamers or combo devices do you use or like?
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Aurender N10, Antipodes to a good DAC using USB.

Raspberry Pi with DietPi OS and Digione HAT board outputting S/PDIF to a good DAC.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

Naim Atom - Fantastic Sound

Bluesound Node2 - see above

Oppo 205 - great product

all via dCS Bridge/Debussey/Rossini Clock/Ayre K3x


I currently own all three of these

Lumin S1 Streamer/DAC combo
PS Audio Directstream DAC w/Bridge II Card
Auralic Aires Mini Streamer/ DAC combo
Quad VA-One...EL84 Class A PP with Bluetooth,USB,Optical & Coaxial inputs...Compact,stunning build quality & wonderfully voiced...